Bug#345319: arm/netwinder: check initrd size during build
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
* Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> [2005-12-24 17:46]:
> To set the record straight, that's not completely correct :-). Today's
> (Dec 23rd) netboot image is 4116916 bytes and it boots fine. I still think
> that the limit is exactly 4100 kilobytes, which is 4100 x 1024 = 4198400
> bytes. That means that currently we have at most 80kB of space left. Under
> the circumstances I think that it makes sense just to build a separate
> netboot image for cats (which hopefully does not have such size
> restrictions).
Yes, it may make sense to split the image. I'll look into this later.
The current 2.6 kernel doesn't boot on Netwinder and I'm being told
that it's due to a bug in the Netwinder firmware. So there *might* be
a new version of the firmware, and maybe that'll be able to load
bigger images. I wouldn't count on it yet, though.
In any case, I'm filing a bug report now to keep track of this and
will look into this later when it's clear whether there'll be a new
version of Netrom (the netwinder firmware).
If the size restriction won't be fixed, debian-installer should check
the size during initrd generation.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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